Climate Change

Global climate change will create greater uncertainty in the future. EBMUD has developed mitigation and adaptation strategies to deal with the changing climate and its effects on water resources. In 2008, EBMUD incorporated climate change into its Strategic Plan, and has developed and implemented a climate change monitoring and response plan to inform future water supply, water quality, and infrastructure planning.

advocating for new legislation and regulations that help water and wastewater agencies better respond to climate change

developing adaptation and mitigation strategies as part of a water supply management program

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The Cimate Change Monitoring and Response Plan (below) advises the District’s future water supply, water quality, and infrastructure planning, to support “no regrets” infrastructure investment decisions, and to guide mitigation of District greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.

An article authored by EBMUD staff and published in the June 2008 edition of the American Water Works Association Journal (Climate Change: Charting a Water Course in an Uncertain Future) presents a comprehensive case study of strategies to deal with climate change mitigations and adaptations, and concludes that water utilities can plan for the uncertainties of climate change and its impacts on water supplies and operations.

These documents are available below as PDF files that can be viewed and printed with Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free software.